Financial Industry Adds More Jobs!

This morning’s job report looks pretty good in general, and includes some more people out there working for financial industry.

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The fellows over at MarketBeat are rocking a live blog on the whole report, so go check that out. But for those in financial world, there were 6,000 jobs added to your section of the world, a turnaround from last month.

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